Another month, another trip to Sacramento … It is April now. The blooms on the trees, so prevalent the previous month, have now all turned to green …
I miss the squares of pink and red … but the green is nice, too. It’s just not as spectacular.
Prior to this stop at the northward bound Vista Point, I took a short detour to take a look at the San Luis Reservoir, which did not fill this year.
It’s about 63% full on this day.
I head off the road into the valley to try and get inspired to take some shots of agriculture …
But today I am not feeling inspired to shoot agriculture, so instead, I head towards the Delta. I decide to look for a place I stopped at many years ago called “Bullfrog Landing.” The Mokelumne Aqueduct passes through it. I can’t remember quite where it is, but first I find the aqueduct, so I know I am close.
I continue on, looking for Bullfrog Landing, which I figure out, is on Bacon Island and is not called Bullfrog Landing anymore. It’s really not called anything, it seems.
It is that neat old railroad bridge that I remember about this spot.
Here is the Mokelumne Aqueduct, marching across the island …
On my way out, I notice this, which is highly annoying … This really makes me mad when I see people leave their trash places, as if they think the government can afford to hire people to go around and pick up all of this trash … Whatever happened to the concept of personal responsibility? Pack it in, pack it out!!!!
After this, I head in to Sacramento. On this trip, I ended up with loads of time for pictures, so there’s much more to come. And on the way back, here are the shots from the Vista Point on the other side of the freeway. The grass is definitely more brown these days.
I wonder how much longer the cows will be there …. 
I know Bullfrog Landing, there between the Jones Tracts, Bacon and Woodward Islands. Just a mile or so below where the Jones tract levee failed. Quite a knot, where the road, rail and Mokelumne pipes cross each other. Always a few people fishing, too, some of whom don’t pick up their trash, unfortunately helping make the case that the public shouldn’t be allowed to use the levee.
Unfortunately, it’s not just the Delta but a lot of places. It is beyond me why people think they can leave such a mess and someone else will come along and pick up after them. It’s one of my pet peeves. Okay, I’ll get off my soapbox now.
Hope you are doing well, John!
Love the photos. They underscore the fact that without infrastructure, California would be a very different place. What was accomplished by generations before us was and is (as long as it holds up) pretty incredible.
Yes, without all this infrastructure running water around everywhere, it would be entirely different …
Thanks for the compliment!
-Maven